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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The ruling on dedicating the reward of reciting the Qur'an to the deceased

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Question:
May Allah reward you and bless you. This is a questioner from the program who mentions his name in his message. He says: If a person recites the Qur'an and then dedicates that to a deceased brother, friend, or father, is this action permissible or not? I ask for clarification with evidence from the Qur'an and the Sunnah, because this practice is common in our country, and we are rewarded for it. There is no evidence for this, nor for the correctness of reciting to the deceased,

Answer:
There is no evidence for it, so it is better to leave it. What has been reported as reaching the deceased is charity, the sacrificial animal, Hajj or 'Umrah, or supplication. All of this reaches the deceased if Allah accepts it. We restrict ourselves to what has come in the evidence. It has not come that one recites the Qur'an or something of the Qur'an and dedicates its reward to the deceased. This has not come. And Allah the Exalted says:
And that there is not for man except that [good] for which he strivesوَأَن لَّيْسَ لِلْإِنسَانِ إِلَّا مَا سَعَىٰ
[An-Najm 53:39]
So a person's deed is for him

The presenter:
He does not dedicate it to another except what has come with evidence. And evidence has come for these matters we mentioned, so one restricts oneself to them, and reciting the Qur'an is not among them. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 6494- حكم إهداء ثواب قراءة القرآن إلى الميت - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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